Effects of Urban Air Pollution on School-Age Children

Šarić, Marko; Fugaš, Mirka; Hrustić, O

doi:10.1080/00039896.1981.10667612

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“…Although simple logic would lead one to predict that many of these covariables would share the same distributions throughout the cohort, there are few reported data to confirm this prediction. In four recent reports of studies of the effects of air pollution on the respiratory health of children, 10 ' 12 ' 30 ' 31 only one 12 describes the prevalence rate of four covariables in each of the areas of differing air quality. Although Melia et al 10 and Ware et al 31 include the effects of five and seven covariables respectively, they do not report on the relationship of those co-variables to air quality.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Hamilton Study: Distribution of Factors Confounding the Relationship between Air Quality and Respiratory Health

Pengelly

Kerigan

Goldsmith

et al. 1984

Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association

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Hamilton, Ontario is an industrial city with a population of 300,000 which is situated at the western end of Lake Ontario. Canada's two largest iron and steel mills are located here; the city historically has had relatively poor air quality, which has improved markedly in the last 25 years. Concern about the health effects of current air quality recently led us to carry out an epidemiological study of the effects of air pollution on the respiratory health of over 3500 school children. Respiratory health was measured by pulmonary function testing of each child, and by an assessment of each child's respiratory symptoms via a questionnaire administered to the parents. Previous studies had shown that other environmental factors (e.g. parental smoking, parental cough, socioeconomic level, housing, and gas cooking) might also affect respiratory health, and thus "confound" any potential relationships between health and air pollution. The questionnaire also collected information on many of these confounding factors. For the purposes of initial analysis, the city was divided Into five areas in which differences In air quality were expected. In general, factors which have been associated with poor respiratory health were observed to be more prevalent in areas of poorer air quality.

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The Hamilton Study: Distribution of Factors Confounding the Relationship between Air Quality and Respiratory Health

Pengelly

Kerigan

Goldsmith

et al. 1984

Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association

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“…The general behavior of ambient SO2 concentrations from air samples collected on August 23, 1997 is illustrated in Figure 1 (Okita,1977 andSaric et. al.,1982).…”

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Composition of aerosols in an industrialized area of Northeastern China

Kato

Koyama

Eiraku

et al. 1999

Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

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Surface level aerosol samples were collected utilizing conventional high volume air sampler in the highly industrialized area of Shenyang, China, located in the northeastern part of the country. Sampling was conducted in the severely polluted Tiexi District area on December 25, 1995 and again from August 23-30, 1997. The average SO 2 and TSP concentrations obtained during the summer was 38 ppb and 388µg/m 3 , respectively. SO 4 2-, NO 3 -and Cl -were the detected water-soluble anions with respective summer 1075 1076 KATO ET AL.concentrations of 3.6-10.6µg/m 3 , 3.2-6.5µg/m 3 and 4.5-7.8µg/m 3 . In addition, elevated levels of heavy metals such as iron, lead, and zinc in aerosols were noted, which most likely resulted from the combustion of coal and other fuels and/or emissions associated with nearby industrial facilities. As expected, concentration levels of TSP, water-soluble ions and heavy metals were found to increase during the winter months.

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“…Although there have been many previous studies of the effects of various environmental factors on the respiratory health of children, relatively few of them 11 …”

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The Hamilton Study: Estimating Exposure to Ambient Suspended Particles

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Effects of Urban Air Pollution on School-Age Children

Cited by 26 publications

References 4 publications

The Hamilton Study: Distribution of Factors Confounding the Relationship between Air Quality and Respiratory Health

The Hamilton Study: Distribution of Factors Confounding the Relationship between Air Quality and Respiratory Health

Composition of aerosols in an industrialized area of Northeastern China

The Hamilton Study: Estimating Exposure to Ambient Suspended Particles

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